With greediness.— The word πλεονεξια, rendered greediness, in its common acceptation, is, "The letting loose our desires to that which we have no right to by the law of justice." But St. Paul, in some of his Epistles, uses it for "intemperate and exorbitant desires of carnal pleasures." See ch. Ephesians 5:3.Colossians 3:5. 1 Corinthians 5:10-11. Thus, the Hebrew word which signifies covetousness, the LXX. translate by the word μιασμος, which denotes pollution; and in this sense the Apostle uses the word πλεονεξια here; implying a transgression of the bounds, not only of virtue and decency, but even of natural appetite. See Romans 1:29.
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Ephesians 4:19
19 Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.